Monday, January 28, 2013

THREE CHEERS FOR TOTALITARIAN JUSTICE

Edmonton Sun, March 14th, 2009. If your death is to be by the
crime of murder and you are that sort of person who believes in justice, then China, not Canada, may be the best place for
your grizzly end to come about.

Women involved in that lewd business called
modeling tend to become, before long, street-smart, wily, cautious, and cagey.
But whether in China or in Canada, you
just don’t know what awaits you round the next corner. You just can’t be on
your guard every second of every day.

China is notorious for the
unjust killing of its own citizens; but it does judge its citizens who are
killers. A totalitarian state exerts as much control as it can over its people.
Whether against the people or for the people, it wields the sword to maintain
order. (Hopefully, this crime was pinned on the right man.)

We should never pretend that modeling is a noble
way to make to living. Who will deny that it’s all about the sins of vanity and
greed? But neither should we shirk our responsibility to punish those who do
harm to vain or greedy people. No matter who gets murdered, we should demand
the death penalty for the crime. Totalitarian China is brutal; but there is
justice there for the crime of murder. Totalitarianism is an evil kind of
regime. But it can sure do the job when avenging a victim! Three cheers for
that!

We would not be cheering for full justice if the
avenging of this wrong were left up to Canadian permissivism. (I’m not making
this word up.) This is what the Canadian form of democratic socialism has
spawned: permissivism. The more you permit, the less you punish. The less you
punish, the more you permit again, until crime is no more crime. Justice here
has gotten so lax that we find ourselves cheering, even for totalitarian
justice! Not that we want totalitarianism for ourselves. But there is
consolation in the fact that a Canadian is sometimes avenged for being
murdered, as in the case (we hope) of Diana O’Brien. ‘Avenge’ is a good old
word. The State exists, in part, to avenge evil. It is right and just to pray
and vote for full measures of justice: life for life and tooth for tooth.
Rulers should be a terror to evil (Romans 13.3.)